by Emanuel Swedenborg, compiled by Julian Kennedy Smyth and William Frederic Wunsch, The Gist of Swedenborg — The First Three States After Death (1920)
“ When a spirit is in the state of his inward nature and life, it appears plainly what manner of man he was in the world; for then he acts from his very self. A man who was inwardly in good in the world, then acts rationally and wisely—more wisely, in fact, than he did in the world ”
by Emanuel Swedenborg, compiled by Julian Kennedy Smyth and William Frederic Wunsch, The Gist of Swedenborg — The First Three States After Death (1920)
“ The first state of a man after death is like his state in the world, because he is then similarly in things outward. His appearance is similar, and so are his speech, his mental habit, and his moral and civil life. As a result he does not know but that he is still in the world, unless he pays attention to things that meet his eye, and to what the angels told him at his resuscitation, that now he is a spirit. Thus one life is carried on into the other, and death is only the transition. ”
by Emanuel Swedenborg, compiled by Julian Kennedy Smyth and William Frederic Wunsch, The Gist of Swedenborg — The First Three States After Death (1920)
“ With every one, therefore, the affection of truth is united to the affection of use, so fully that they act as one. Thereby truth is planted in service, so much so that the truths which angelic spirits learn, are truths of use. ”
